CvsOnRedHat

Last edit June 26, 2013
The CvsTutorial covers a lot of material which is great. However there are RedHatLinux differences which should be noted.

Note that RedHat has a different meaning on this wiki, see SixThinkingHats.

For example, when you get to the inetd part of pserver in RedHatLinux 7.2 try these commands:

  • cd /etc/xinetd.d
  • make a cvspserver file
  • make content of cvspserver the following:

# description: cvspserver.

service cvspserver { 
	socket_type	= stream
	protocol	= tcp
	wait		= no
	user		= root
	passenv	        = PATH
	server	        = /usr/bin/cvs
	server_args	= -f --allow-root=/usr/cvsroot pserver
	disable	        = no
}

make sure /etc/services has this line in there:

cvspserver 2401/tcp

Next:

  • /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd stop
  • /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd start 
		you can also do /sbin/service xinetd restart
  • cat /var/log/messages and make sure "xinitd startup succeeded" appears.
  • netstat -nlpd | grep 2401 and make sure you are root when you do that command. See if LISTEN is in there.

As mentioned in CvsTutorial, Karl Fogel's book http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/cvsbook.html covers a lot

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